Bacterial Virulence Factors and Rho GTPases

Pathogenic bacteria for human and animals have developed sophisticated weapons, termed virulence factors, to ensure their replication and persistence into their hosts. The authors in this volume show a synthesis on how the various host cellular Rho GTPases activities are manipulated by bacteria to fulfil their virulence.

List of contents

Bacterial Virulence Strategies That Utilize Rho GTPases.- Extracellular Bacterial Pathogens and Small GTPases of the Rho Family: An Unexpected Combination.- Triggered Phagocytosis by Salmonella: Bacterial Molecular Mimicry of RhoGTPase Activation/Deactivation.- Regulation of Phagocytosis by Rho GTPases.- The Immunological Synapse and Rho GTPases.- Rho GTPases and the Control of the Oxidative Burst in Polymorphonuclear Leukocytes.- Clostridial Rho-Inhibiting Protein Toxins.- The Type III Cytotoxins of Yersinia and Pseudomonas aeruginosa That Modulate the Actin Cytoskeleton.- Modulation of Rho GTPases and the Actin Cytoskeleton by YopT of Yersinia.- Bacterial Toxins Activating Rho GTPases.

Summary

Pathogenic bacteria for human and animals have developed sophisticated weapons, termed virulence factors, to ensure their replication and persistence into their hosts. The authors in this volume show a synthesis on how the various host cellular Rho GTPases activities are manipulated by bacteria to fulfil their virulence.

Product details

• Assisted by: P. Boquet (Editor), Patrice Boquet (Editor), P. Bouquet (Editor), E. Lemichez (Editor), Emmanuel Lemichez (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.05.2005
• EAN: 9783540238652
• ISBN: 978-3-540-23865-2
• No. of pages: 198
• Weight: 410 g
• Illustrations: X, 198 p. 28 illus., 20 illus. in color.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology; Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Microbiology; Protein, B, Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Helicobacter pylori, bacteria, Toxin, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Pseudomonas, Virology, Salmonella, yersinia, bacterial pathogens, bacterial virulence factors